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Open Source - Topics A-Z
Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about the use of open source software and standards within government.
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- Open Source - Archive
- Articles and resources about the use of open source software within government.
Added: 2 December 2005
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- Open Source - Australia
- Articles and resources about trends and issues relating to open source software in Australia.
Added: 6 December 2005
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- Open source - Canada
- Articles and resources about trends and issues relating to open-source software in Canada.
Added: 12 December 2005
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- Open source software - United Kingdom - Archive
- Articles and resources about the use of open source software by the UK government.
Added: 24 December 2005
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- Viewpoint: Time to end the Open Source impasse in the public sector
- Posted by Gary Flood. Public Technology, 10 April 2012. "Peter Dawes-Huish of LinuxIT says it's time to get serious about Open Source As it stands, the government's stance on Open Source can be summed up in one word: meaningless. It's just got no significant means of enforcement. That's the general view of the UK's Open Source community, which has complained about the lack of backbone in the guidelines..."
Added: 12 April 2012;
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- Government's migration guide: 'Open source benefits IT users'
- ePractice.eu, 2 March 2012. Country Germany; Domain eGovernment; Topic Efficiency & Effectiveness, Benchmarking, Infrastructure, Interoperability, Open Source, Policy. "Improving IT applications for the users is the reason most frequently given by German public administrations to move to open source and open standards, according to a migration guide that is about to be published by OSS Kompetenzzentrum, the government's resource centre on open source software. Fulfilling legal requirements comes second and correcting errors comes third, according to the guide..."
Added: 8 March 2012;
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- Govt CIO acts on open source omission
- By John Hilvert. IT News, December 23, 2011. "Parliamentary Services adjusts tender to consider open source options. The Australian Government's acting CIO has stepped in to ensure open source software is considered as part of one of the largest software tenders currently on offer in Canberra. The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) has counselled the Parliamentary Services Department (DPS) over its compliance with the Government's Open Source Policy after the DPS released a request for tender (DPS11097) to revamp its integrated library system (ILS)..."
Added: 31 January 2012;
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- Department for Work and Pensions plans open source tests
- One of Whitehall's biggest software spenders is to pilot the use of open source on hundreds of desktops, by Gill Hitchcock. Guardian Professional, Tuesday 6 December 2011. "The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), one of Whitehall's two biggest spending departments on software, is to trial the use of open source software next year..."
Added: 7 December 2011;
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- Cabinet Office publishes open source procurement toolkit
- Department hopes to dispel myths around open source with new online toolkit, by Mark Say. Guardian Professional, Wednesday 2 November 2011. "The Cabinet Office has published an open source procurement toolkit for the public sector on its website. It said the purpose is to ensure that there is a level playing field for open source and proprietary software and that some of the myths associated with open source are dispelled..."
Added: 3 November 2011;
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- Open Source Procurement Toolkit
- UK Cabinet Office. "The Government first set out its policy on the use of open source in 2004. This was restated in both 2009 and 2010. The Government ICT Strategy states that "Where appropriate, Government will procure open source solutions." To support this, Action 3 of the Strategy says that "To create a level playing field for the use of innovative ICT solutions, the Government will publish a toolkit for procurers on best practice for evaluating the use of open source solutions."..."
Added: 3 November 2011;
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- Government moves to ease security restrictions stifling cloud and open source
- by Mark Ballard. Computer Weekly, Friday 30 September 2011. "The government's IT security arm, CESG, has begun relaxing security restrictions on the software it approves for public sector use to accommodate Cabinet Office plans for cloud computing and wider use of open source..."
Added: 27 October 2011;
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- Promoting Open Source Software in Government: The Challenges of Motivation and Follow-Through
- by Andrew Oram. This is a prepublication version of an article published in the Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Volume 8, Issue 3, July-September 2011, copyright Taylor & Francis. "Abstract - Open source software has long been used by government agencies, and prospects for increased use have been greeted enthusiastically by both knowledgeable government employees and open source communities. But mobilizing the necessary forces in government to procure open source software has proven difficult. Instead of a vague statement of principle or a naive focus on cost reduction, government agencies should review and focus on core responsibilities to the public: access for all, vendor independence, archiving, special government needs, and security. Managers promoting open source should gain insight into how it is produced and what its adoption entails, while a statement of explicitly political goals an provide the necessary backbone to carry through with the project. This paper also introduces recent experiments in soliciting software contributions online, shows the relationship of open source software to open government, discuss the importance of open standards to the adoption of open source, and stresses the importance of a robust requirements assessment, highlighting models from the Department of Defense, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the city of Munich, Germany..."
Added: 22 September 2011;
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- Government IT's quiet open source evolution
- The GOSCON conference shows that open source is making headway in DC, by Alex Howard. O'Reilly Radar, 1 September 2011. "Attendees of the recent Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) were privy to some of the most thoughtful conversations about open source in government I've heard this year. A packed room for a panel on cost savings in Washington, D.C., confirmed that strong interest in saving taxpayer dollars through open source exists in the federal IT community..."
Added: 8 September 2011;
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- Open Source? Wassat, asks Whitehall
- Posted by John Lamb. Public Technology, 6 September 2011. "Public sector efforts to use more open source software have been given added urgency by a BBC enquiry into the use of open source software by government departments that says, well, they aren't, really..."
Added: 8 September 2011;
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- Department of Justice's migration to OpenOffice a success story
- ePractice.eu, 14 July 2011. Country Austria; Domain eGovernment; Topic Open Source. "According to an online magazine aimed at users of the Linux Operating System, since 2008 the Austrian justice ministry has migrated several thousands of desktop PCs to OpenOffice, in a "complete success story" worth highlighting..."
Added: 18 July 2011;
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- Canberra's open source policy stumbles on compliance
- By John Hilvert. ITNews, July 7, 2011. "Comment: Guide a toothless tiger without compliance reports. The Australian Government's latest commitment to open source software has been undermined by patchy compliance by the agencies it informs. While the Government's revised guide urged agencies to consider cost, customisation, end-user training, reliability, lock-in and license obligations when choosing between proprietary and open source software options, already there are examples of non-compliance with the policy..."
Added: 11 July 2011;
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- Half of all public administrations have open source strategy
- by Gijs Hillenius. Open Source Observatory and Repository Europe, published on June 28, 2011. "Half of all public administrations in the Netherlands (51 percent) has a strategy for open source or is preparing such a plan, and half (53 percent) has specific plans to use more of this type of software. These are two of the conclusions of a survey by NOiV, the Dutch government's resource centre on open source and open standards..."
Added: 11 July 2011;
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- Students to develop open source software for the Danish public sector
- by OSOR Editorial Team. Open Source Observatory and Repository Europe, published on July 1, 2011. "Students have the opportunity to be paid during their summer vacations to enhance open source software for the Danish public sector, it was announced on 8 June 2011..."
Added: 11 July 2011;
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- Licensing focus in govt open source guide
- By Suzanne Tindal, ZDNet Australia, July 4th, 2011. "The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) has released the final "Guide to Open Source Software" for government agencies, which includes its new open source procurement principles... Licensing received pages of attention in the guide, with AGIMO going into detail about the dangers that open source licences present..."
Added: 5 July 2011;
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